Best table making package so far

My vote is for huxtable for now.

A Stargazer Cheatsheet

Useful tips here.

CSS templates for tables

I am compiling a list of free CSS templates to make good-looking tables:

1. Stylish CSS Tables Tutorial
2. Custom CSS for HTML generated using RStudio

JASP

JASP is an interesting project. It is based on R with additional facilities and functions such as automatic table generation. There appears to be an R package that provide that functions directly to R users. Very worth checking out.

pander 0.5.0: the next generation of markdown tables in R

I am moving from Sweave to Rmarkdown, this looks very promising.

Making tables using R

Both the "tables" and "etable" packages are useful for making cross-tabulations.

Gmisc package

The "gmisc" package provides a function called "htmlTable" that can produce good-looking tables in markdown files.

With the author's help, I was able to make the reshaped data (using the "reshape2" package) work with the "htmlTable" function to create arbitrary descriptive statistics table with Markdown.

R to LaTeX options

This post provides a thorough comparison among a number of options. If one wants full Zelig support, stargazer seems to be the only option (it handles more Zelig model types than texreg does).

R to LaTeX packages

Helpful summary here.

Excel2latex

Excel2latex is a handy tool to get Word tables into LaTeX.

New output processing package

The "rockchalk" package looks promising. I hope it can be as general as the "esttab" package for Stata.

Mtable extension as a package

This looks promising.

Booktabs with longtable

I finally figured out how to use "booktabs" with "longtable". The "esttab" can be used to produce preliminary output, but the output needs to be manually tuned to get the desired look. Here are come tips., and here is a helpful example. Below is the preamble:


{
\begin{center}
\def\sym#1{\ifmmode^{#1}\else\(^{#1}\)\fi}
\begin{longtable}{l*{4}{c}}
\caption{Something}\\
\toprule
                    &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Model 1}    &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Model 2}    &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Model 3}    &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Model 4}    \\
\endfirsthead
\caption[]{(Continued)} \\
                \toprule
                    &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Model 1}    &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Model 2}    &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Model 3}    &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Model 4}    \\
                \midrule
\endhead
                \midrule \multicolumn{5}{r}{\emph{Continued on next page}}
\endfoot
\endlastfoot
\midrule

...

\end{center}

\end{longtable}

}

Wrapping text around figures in LaTeX

I found this page very helpful in showing how to create figures with text wrapping around. And this one for making tables.

I am using the LaTeX package by Bruce Donald for my next NIH proposal.

For a wider use of R

Two things that are crucial for a wider use of R among applied researchers. The first one is data manipulation/reshaping tool. I think the package "reshape" and "reshape2" have done good job and have largely removed the barrier. The second one is a universal output processing engine, something like the "eststo, esttab, estsadd" combo in Stata. The package "xtable", "memisc", "aprstable", and "estout" have made some progress, but they all are limited to some estimation procedures and none of them provides a universal output process engine for "all" estimation procedures. One of the main reason I am still paying for Stata is the convenience of directly producing publication quality LaTeX tables from any estimation procedures without having to manually change anything.

I wish more attention can be devoted to this latter issue.

Online LaTeX table generater

It probably uses some Perl or Python script to add all the formatting marks, very convenient.

The "apsrtable" is getting better

Now we have both "memisc" and "apsrtable" for producing publication-ready tables from model results.

Another table making package for R

This looks very promising.

Spreadsheet to LaTeX solutions

Excel2latex and spreadsheet2latex seem to be the only two solutions at the time.

Reshaping data in R

This post explains how to reshape data in R and how to created nicely formated LaTeX using the xtable package.